Survival Guide

Survival Guide

April 12, 2000

Reminders

LITERARY LECTURE. The Hampton University English Department will sponsor a lecture by Gloria Naylor, author of "Mama Day" and "The Women of Brewster Place," at 6 p.m. today in Ogden Hall. The lecture is the culminating event of the annual Read-In, an interdisciplinary event in which the entire campus reads a novel and participates in lectures and other activities relating to the novel and its content. The event is free and open to the public. Information: 727-5421.

LOWERING GROWING. Winter wheat acreage seeded last fall for harvest this spring was 240,000 acres, down 40,000 acres from the previous year. Peanut acreage is expected to be unchanged from last year at 76,000 acres. Source: Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service.

Highway headaches

TRAFFIC HOT LINES. For information about closings and traffic conditions for Hampton Roads, call the Daily Press 1-LINE at 928-1111 and enter category 7623 (ROAD). The call is toll-free throughout most of Hampton Roads. For Smithfield, call 357-6594.

COLEMAN BRIDGE. No scheduled openings, subject to change.

Public agenda

NEWPORT NEWS PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 2 p.m., West Avenue Library.

HAMPTON CITY COUNCIL. 7:30 p.m., City Council Cham-bers, 22 Lincoln St.

"We have spent holidays there with our children and our family. We love the place." - Colin G. Campbell, the new president and chief executive officer of the Colonial Williamsburg Found-ation. Story, A1.

Thought of the day

"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery." - Otto Weininger, German psychologist